Acer travelmate 2310

My acer tm2310 was given to me by a friend. it's pretty sluggish to say the least. I did all the usual stuff ie defrag, start up progs,deleting unwanted stuff, virus scan, reg check & fix. I've come to the point where, I think I need the original restore disc with windows. everybody wants to sell me some kind of cure all. Im basically broke But i don't mind shelling out a little cash if i knew I could get a decent running laptop out of the deal. I don't know who to trust on the net ? I know I'm asking for miracles, But I wrote my little sob story as a last resort. can any one give me some ideas. Thanks David Davidwmaple@live.com

What platform are you using 98,200,xp,xppro.
98 work as good as any but runs a lot faster on slow pc(small mem)Hint ...all the programs to improve performance take up a lot of resources and end up slowing things down

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Enter the first recovery cd, and choose the option to format the hard drive and install a fresh copy of windows. Then enter the second recovery cd when it asks. It should have an option of formatting the drive when you put in the recovery cds. There is not that much that can go wrong, since you want to delete everything anyway. Hope that helps :).

Your Acer 2310 should have a built in wireless card,it should show in My computer>right click>properties>hardware tab>device manager>network adapters, here there should be two listed, 1 wireless, 1 wired lan card the driver can be found here:
http://support.acer-euro.com/drivers/notebook/tm_2310.html